The veteran pro­ducer, who is re­port­edly in treat­ment for sex­ual ad­dic­tion as he faces par­al­lel in­ves­ti­ga­tions by po­lice in New York and Lon­don, has re­peat­edly de­nied hav­ing non-con­sen­sual sex.

LA County District At­tor­ney Jackie Lacey said in Novem­ber she had cre­ated a spe­cialised task force to eval­u­ate cases of “sex­ual abuse in the en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try.” She said the team in­cluded spe­cial­ist sex crimes pros­e­cu­tors who would re­view cases to de­ter­mine if crim­i­nal charges were war­ranted.

The We­in­stein scan­dal touched off a del­uge of al­le­ga­tions against pow­er­ful men in en­ter­tain­ment, pol­i­tics and the me­dia, forc­ing many in­dus­tries to ex­am­ine their work­place poli­cies.